Article 1 createes the first of the 3 branches of the government. Section 1 createes the name of the Legislature to be The Congress is a two-part body. Section 2 explains the House of Representatives. It createes a the minimum requirements, like 25yrs old limit, and says that the people themselves...

Essentially, when Britain agreed to the terms of the Treaty of Paris following the Revolutionary War in 1783, a new American nation was finally legitimized. The United States, which as thirteen individual colonies had retained a tradition of internal jealousies and suspicions, began a long and diff...

Watkins v. United States (1957) 354 U.S. 178Facts: Watkins was subpoenaed to testify in a congressional hearing to investigate alleged wrong doings of the Attorney General and the department of justice. Throughout the questioning the congressional committee asked questions that could result in Watki...

Capital punishment falls under the category of Ideological/Single-Issue interest groups. They are organized through mainly through religious institutions or chapters and state affiliates.The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has approximately 300,000 members nationwide and is based on strict adh...